UMBC English Graduate Entering Rutgers Univ. Poetry MFA
See below for a positive message from UMBC English graduate Maxi Wardcantori ('19), who will be entering Rutgers University's Poetry MFA program. Congratulations to Maxi on this accomplishment--and best of luck!
"After graduating in May with a B.A. in English Literature and a minor in Medieval & Early Modern Studies, Maxi Wardcantori will be attending a two-year Poetry MFA program at Rutgers University. She was awarded full tuition funding, as well as a yearly stipend, and was additionally selected for a paid undergraduate lecturing position in the English department. Her graduate thesis will be completed under the mentorship of award-winning poet Brenda Shaughnessy, who Maxi has long admired and is thrilled to have the opportunity to work with. After Rutgers, Maxi hopes to teach creative writing to college students, but she is excited to pursue whatever the world might have in store for her. She is very grateful to the English department and the professors who supported her along the way."
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Seven UMBC Writing Tutors Presenting at Regional Conference
Writing Center Director Elaine MacDougall Also Presenting
Seven UMBC writing tutors will be presenting at the 2020 Mid-Atlantic Writing Centers Association Conference, held this weekend at Towson University. Elaine MacDougall, director of the UMBC Writing Center, will also be participating in multiple events, including a workshop on trauma-informed writing workshops. Congratulations to everyone representing UMBC at MAWCA 2020!
For more information about the conference, see the
MAWCA website.
Full list of panels with UMBC participants:
A6. Panel, LA 4310. Partnering for student success: Centering student agency in the writing and research process.
Erin Durham, Elaine MacDougall, Allison Jennings-Roche, Beck Hertl,
Emma Jett, and Kyndall Hardwick; University of Maryland, Baltimore
County. The library and writing center staff have developed a strong
collaborative relationship to center student agency in the research and
writing process at the University of Maryland, Baltimore County (UMBC).
C1. Roundtable, LA 4201. What Do “Diversity” and “Social Justice” Mean to Writing Center Practitioners?
Violeta Brito, Uchendu Uchendu, Fleurine Amouzou Guiffo; University of
Maryland, Baltimore County. This roundtable will engage participants to
think critically about diversity and social justice in writing centers.
We will analyze the past, present, and future pedagogies of writing
centers in the context of social justice.
C12. Workshop, LA 4214. Creating Trauma-Informed Writing Workshops: Reflection and Intervention in the Narratives of Our Lives.
Elaine MacDougall, University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
Trauma-Informed writing workshops allow space for reflection and
intervention in our own thought processes. Writers can reflect on their
own sense of a “dominant cultural narrative” and work to transform that
narrative if necessary, giving voice to silence when imposed on
individuals in our communities, including writing center spaces.
D5. Data Dash, LA 4204.
Developing more effective tutoring strategies for multilingual writers in the Writing Center.
Ajay Kharkar, Jamie Denton; University of Maryland, Baltimore County.
This Data Dash presentation features the early findings of research on
strategies to increase comfort for multilingual writers in our Writing
Center.
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Join CAHSS and the Dresher Center in celebrating new books in the humanities published by faculty at UMBC. Three English faculty members will be among the featured authors--Keegan Cook Finberg, Tanya Olson, and Lia Purpura.
The event will be held today, Wednesday, March 4, from 5:00-6:30 PM in the Dresher Center conference room (PAHB 216). Light refreshments will be served.
For more info and a full list of faculty-authored books,
visit the Dresher Center's event page.
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2020 Malcolm C. Braly Award Winners Announced!
The winners of the English department's 2020 Malcolm Braly Awards for creative writing have been announced. Congratulations to Ryan Saladino, Maxi Wardcantori, and Lauren Gouin for their exceptional pieces of writing! Read on for a list of the individual awards with author bios and download a PDF of the winning pieces (linked below this article).
The Malcolm C. Braly Creative Writing Award was
established to honor the memory of Malcolm C. Braly, who was a member
of the UMBC English Department until his death in 1980. Awards are made
in fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction. More information about the Braly Award and other awards and scholarships can be found on the
English department website.
2020 Malcolm C. Braly Award Winners
The Braly Award for Fiction: "Perfect Day" by Ryan Saladino
Ryan Saladino is currently an English major on the literary track.
He has been writing stories since elementary school and hopes to one day
have a career as a fiction writer.
The Braly Award for Poetry: "treasure" by Maxi Wardcantori
Maxi Wardcantori will graduate in May of 2020 with a degree in English
Literature and a minor in Medieval & Early Modern Studies. Though
primarily a poet, she enjoys exploring different artistic practices, and
is currently experimenting with expressionist illustration, creative
nonfiction, vocal/instrumental composition, and animation. She hopes to
be accepted into a graduate writing program, but is excited to explore
whatever path might emerge for her.
The Braly Award for Creative Nonfiction: "Cakes of Significance" by Lauren Gouin
Lauren Gouin wants to live in a world where mediocre, white male authors
cease to be the loudest literary voice monopolizing the canon but until
then, she'll continue to share her personal stories of struggle and
redemption especially when helping her nine-year-old with their math
homework.
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Thank you to all who attended last week's Graduate Student Reception!
The space was standing room only for presentations by current graduate students Joy Kish and Corbin Jones. You can see these students in action in the photos below.
If you have any questions about our MA program, contact Dr. Orianne Smith at
osmith@umbc.edu.
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This Thursday, Feb. 20: Local Reading with Lia Purpura!
7:00 PM at The Ivy Bookshop in Baltimore, MD
This week, Lia Purpura will be discussing her recent book All the Fierce Tethers in
Baltimore! Purpura, UMBC English department Writer in Residence, is the
author of several books of essays and poems and has written for The New Yorker, The New Republic, Orion, The Paris Review, The Georgia Review, Agni, and elsewhere.
The event will be held at The Ivy Bookshop (6080 Falls Road, Baltimore, MD) at 7:00 PM on Thursday, February 20.
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The event will be held in the Fine Arts Recital Hall from 7:00-9:00 PM. A reception and book signing will precede the lecture at 6:00 PM.
"By the late 1960s and early 1970s, reeling from a wave of urban uprisings, politicians finally worked to end the practice of redlining. Reasoning that the turbulence could be calmed by turning Black city-dwellers into homeowners, they passed the Housing and Urban Development Act of 1968, and set about establishing policies to induce mortgage lenders and the real estate industry to treat Black homebuyers equally. The disaster that ensued revealed that racist exclusion had not been eradicated, but rather transmuted into a new phenomenon of predatory inclusion. This talk uncovers how the push to uplift Black homeownership had descended into a goldmine for realtors and mortgage lenders, and a ready-made cudgel for the champions of deregulation to wield against government intervention of any kind."
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Zachary Riggins, '18, is a former UMBC English student who is a PhD student in English at Texas A&M University. Read about his experience at UMBC and post-graduation work below:
When I first started at UMBC in the fall of 2015, I thought of myself first and foremost as a pre-med student focusing on obtaining a degree in biology but entertaining the possibility of also majoring in English. However, after my first experiences within the English department, my passion for literature became undeniable. While it was the course content which solidified my interest in the major, I found my interaction with the department’s faculty to be truly invaluable. As a first generation college student, it was easy to feel adrift; I was unfamiliar with the expectations of academia and frequently accosted by friends and family who demanded explanations about my career path. The faculty helped both to familiarize me with academia and to provide a language with which I could articulate the skills I developed and their value to the modern world.
After graduating from UMBC in May of 2018, I have spent the past year and a half in the English PhD program at Texas A&M University. I am still working on refining my scholarly interests, but recently I have been most interested in exploring the connections among trauma, identity, subjectivity, and gender in 20th and 21st century texts; I am planning on obtaining a graduate certificate in Women’s and Gender Studies. Besides taking classes, I also hold a Graduate Assistantship. In my first year I worked as a research assistant for the World Shakespeare Bibliography, a searchable electronic database for Shakespeare scholarship. In that capacity I prepared and submitted annotated entries for recent monographs, book chapters, and journal articles which had a focus on Shakespeare in any form. For the remainder of my assistantship I will work as an instructor; I am currently teaching a rhetoric and composition course intended for underclassmen. As I continue to explore the world of academia, this time from the position of course instructor, I hope to pass on what I learned from my professors at UMBC and serve as a liaison for other first generation students unfamiliar with or intimidated by academia.
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Haunted Scholarship: Using Born-Digital Writing and Experimental Digital Projects in the Humanities Classroom
Mark your calendars for this exciting pair of events announced by the Inclusion Imperative:
Please join us for this Humanities Teaching Lab (HTLab), a
Public Talk and
Workshop at UMBC, led by
Dr. Marisa Parham, Professor of English, Amherst College, and Director of the
Immersive Reality Lab for the Humanities.
In her talk, "Breaking, Dancing, and Making Black Lives in the Digital Humanities," Dr.
Parham will discuss what might be made possible at the intersection
between Black expressive traditions, digital humanities, and electronic
literature, with an eye to describing the “why” of the projects she has
recently completed, which can be found here.
Public Talk
Thursday, February 6, 2020
4:30-6:00 p.m.
University Center, Room 310
Hands-On Workshop Friday, February 7, 2020
10:00 a.m.-12:00 p.m.
Performing Arts & Humanities Building, Room 216
Marisa Parham is Professor of English at Amherst College, and directs the
Immersive Reality Lab for the Humanities (irLh), an independent workgroup for digital and experimental humanities.
irLh develops
and incubates digital projects for AR, VR, and screen, and generally
supports the work of digital scholars. Parham also serves as one of two
faculty diversity and inclusion officers (FDIO) at Amherst College. She
is the author of
Haunting and Displacement in African-American Literature and Culture, The African-American Student’s Guide to College, and is co-editor of
Theorizing Glissant: Sites and Citations.
Her current teaching and research projects focus on texts and
technologies that problematize assumptions about time, space, and bodily
materiality.
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Read Michele Osherow's Notes on The Merry Wives of Windsor
Osherow is Resident Dramaturg at the Folger Theatre
English Faculty member Michele Osherow, who serves as Resident Dramaturg at the Folger Theatre, has published her dramaturg's notes for the Folger's current production of The Merry Wives of Windsor, directed by Aaron Posner. Osherow "explores the play’s history, the wit of its wives, and the production’s far-out 1970s setting." Read the whole article on the Folger website: https://spotlight.folger.edu/2020/01/21/dramaturgs-notes-the-merry-wives-of-windsor/
Osherow's writing dovetails with her current advanced topics course, ENGL 416: How We Make Shakespeare Mean: Text and Stagecraft.
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